Chef Ned's Kitchen

Recent recalls in the Pet Food Industry have raised interest among dog owners in home cooked diets for their dogs. Kauffman's Stress Protection Formula and Coat & Skin Enhancing Formula can play a vital part in balancing a home cooked diet for dogs.

Several key points should be taken into consideration when preparing a home cooked diet:

A home prepared diet is rarely spontaneously balanced. It requires the addition of macro minerals (i.e. calcium, phosphorus, and potassium), fat and water soluble vitamins, and trace minerals

Vitamin-mineral supplements should not be cooked or heated or stored with the food; rather they should be applied directly to the food just prior to offering the meal.

Owners should be aware that although vitamins and trace minerals are present in only small quantities they are very important and not optional.The most common errors in homemade foods occur when pet owners omit ingredients in balanced recipes based on personal preference or they omit the vitamin-trace mineral supplement. (Small Animal Clinical Nutrition, 4th edition, 2000, p 164, "Making Pet Foods at Home")

An Example Diet

A simple canine diet example developed by our Canine Nutritionist, Edward Moser, MS, VMD, DACVN (a.k.a. Chef Ned) is shown below. It includes your choice of either Kauffman's Stress Protection Formula or Coat & Skin Enhancing Formula. It is important to note that Stress Protection Formula or Coat & Skin Enhancing Formula will be the primary source of Vitamins and Trace Minerals and must be included to make the diet complete and balanced.

Since whichever supplement you choose will be the primary source of Vitamins and Minerals, it should be included in the diet at the higher usage level indicated on the label (Stress level or Maintenance Plus level). This level should be a minimum starting point and adjusted to the individual dog's needs. It is also important that neither supplement be overfed (no more than two times the Stress level or Maintenance Plus level).

Six (6) bone meal tablets (10 grain equivalent; 32% calcium and 13% phosphorus). This is the equivalent of about four grams of steamed bone meal powder. Tablets or powder are generally available from health food stores

For those of you looking to provide a wholesome home cooked treat for your dog, try one of these great home-baked biscuit recipes for your dog! The recipes shown here have been reviewed by our Canine Nutritionist, Edward Moser, MS, VMD, DACVN (a.k.a. Chef Ned) and are appropriate for Canine Diets*. The recipes all include a nutritional boost from either Kauffman's Stress Protection Formula or Coat & Skin Enhancing Formula. E-mail (info@danielbaumco.com) or send us your favorite recipe and Chef Ned will review and incorporate either Kauffman's Stress Formula or Coat & Skin Formula into it.

Keep checking back here! If we post your recipe on this website we will send you a FREE one-pound canister of your choice of either Kauffman's Stress or Coat & Skin Formula. Please remember to include your correct shipping address and your supplement preference when submitting your recipe.

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